Excuse me, Chelle, but I am NOT "way, way up there." I'm on the L. Michigan edge of the UP, "way, way up there" would be in the Copper Country (Keweenaw Peninsula) !
So far I think we may have had 4 days that could reasonably be called "summer"; unfortunately they've been separated by a week or more of not summer.
Other than the fact that the tomatoes are going to have an awful hard time ripening at this rate, everything else in the garden is doing surprisingly well -- and it's a lot nicer to work outside when it's in the high 60s and low 70s than high 80s and low 90s !! (So maybe that's what I should be doing at this moment, instead of messing around on the computer... ? )
No matter what other colors they're growing with, the 4 o'clocks sound beautiful -- I love them, and grew them years ago without any problem but for the last several years had tried without success to get some started. This year I did get 1 plant, which is only about 6 inches tall at the moment, from 12 seeds that I planted. Any recommendations for starting the seeds? Start indoors, winter sow, direct sow?? Soak them, nick them ?
